By the time I did realize it was an option to make my art – whether it was a painting, a website, or a snow removal business – I had decades of mental programming to undo. I had never considered doing anything other than what I was told. It was assumed that I would do my homework and not talk in class and fill out the proper standardized-test bubbles with a No. 2 pencil. Just what all of this would get me was unclear. It wasn’t until I found myself sitting in a beige cubicle that I ever thought to ask. When I did finally start following my own ideas, this mental programming served as walls of
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